Culture and Redemption: Religion, the Secular, and American LiteraturePrinceton University Press, 2007 - 337 pàgines Many Americans wish to believe that the United States, founded in religious tolerance, has gradually and naturally established a secular public sphere that is equally tolerant of all religions--or none. Culture and Redemption suggests otherwise. Tracy Fessenden contends that the uneven separation of church and state in America, far from safeguarding an arena for democratic flourishing, has functioned instead to promote particular forms of religious possibility while containing, suppressing, or excluding others. At a moment when questions about the appropriate role of religion in public life have become trenchant as never before, Culture and Redemption radically challenges conventional depictions--celebratory or damning--of America's "secular" public sphere. |
Continguts
Legible Diminion Puritanisms New World Narrative | 15 |
Protestant Expansion Indian Violence and Childhood Death The New England Primer | 34 |
From Disestablishment to Consensus The NineteenthCentury Bible Wars and the Limits of Dissent | 60 |
Conversion to Democracy Religion and the American Renaissance | 84 |
Secular Fictions | 109 |
From Romanism to Race Uncle Toms Cabin | 111 |
Mark Twain and the Ambivalent Refuge of Unbelief | 137 |
Secularism Feminism Imperialism Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Progress Narrative of US Feminism | 161 |
F Scott Fitzgeralds Catholic Closet | 181 |
American Religion and the Future of Dissent | 213 |
Notes | 219 |
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